Publishing firm Vibal Group, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard, launched its commercial printing division. Called the Vee Print, the division uses the latest digital printing machinery and solutions to serve education, enterprise and government sectors.
HP Indigo 5500
The division boasts of state-of-the-art offset and printing machines capable of printing with improved print quality, faster turnaround and increased capacity. These include the HP Indigo 5500 and HP T230 Color Inkjet Web digital presses, the company’s flagship digital printers.
“We are proud to lead this advancement in the Philippine printing industry to serve Filipino businesses, powered by world-class printing technologies and digital printing presses,” said John S. Belen, VP for printing and digital imaging at Vibal Group.
The HP Indigo 5500, which uses HP ElectroInk with color gamut of up to seven colors, can run 68 ppm (pages per minute) in full color, 136 ppm in two colors and 272 ppm in monochrome. It has a monthly duty cycle of up to two-million four-color A4 pages.
The HP T230 Color Inkjet Web Press, on the other hand, boasts printing speed of 400-ft per minute for monochrome and full color. The machine makes use of original HP inks and HP Thermal Inkjet printing technology and incorporates data processing based on HP Blade System.
These machines can be controlled using computers and mobile devices.
Using its latest printing technology, Vibal now offers schools and enterprises custom-ready printing services including yearbooks, newsletters, photobooks, storybooks, notebooks, planners, print-on-demand books, brochures and other marketing collaterals, security forms, and test booklets, among others.
Aside from digital printing services, Vibal also creates custom mobile applications for consumer and corporate use in iOS, Android, Chrome, Web and Windows platforms. The company has developed apps for schools such as DLSU, FEU, and St. Paul, and other institutions.
Vibal also provides cloud computing solutions and services that can be customized to serve the needs of both private firms and government agencies. The company offers applications like enterprise application, high-performance computing (HPC) and analytics, storage and disaster recovery as well as Web applications.
Run by 13 employees, the Vibal Cloud Data Center was installed in June 2014 to offer Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Web hosting to customers. Built on a private cloud, the data center, which has 24 servers having a storage capacity of 1.34 petabytes, is secured by a network security firewall.
Vibal also offers education technology solutions packages that suit schools’ requirements, with mobile devices bundled with e-textbooks and apps for digital classroom. Technology solutions include mobile devices such as HP Chromebook 11; HP 8 G2 tablet; HP Stream 11 laptop; and HP Slatebook X2, a tablet and notebook rolled into one; and HP printers.
